Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Sep 2007 18:11 UTC, submitted by AdamW
The first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Copernic, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this release candidate) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. This release candidate is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer, and as a mini-CD edition for both x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. A One combined live/install CD edition will be released in the near future (problems with unionfs prevented the One edition from being release at the same time as the other editions).
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Well, I resized a partition and installed the Beta 2 I had again. This time I used Gnome for the desktop.
I didn't have to do anything with the CPU frequency as I did in KDE, and after configuring my screen, SageTV works fine.
My only 2 complaints so far is that Samba isn't installed by default which is awkward when you use Gnome to search the network.
And the other complaint is that once I have Samba working and used the Mandriva Center to mount a Windows share, it doesn't put an icon on the gnome desktop, like it would if I mounted using Gnome. Relatively minor complaints.
So far, I really like the new 2008 distro.
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2005-12-27
I stopped all of the 3D features (the laptop isn't that powerful).
One day I really need to compare my Debian xorg.conf to Mandriva's and figure out why it doesn't work as well.